I’m using a Java-Script based Textile parser and integrated a Syntaxhighlighter:

This works quite well and I can display the result while typing in the browser. Cool! However there are some disadvantages as well:

As there is no real html, but everything is pure Javascript and JSON, it would be difficult for search engine’s like google to scan pages based on this.

When I like to create Atom feeds I just have the raw-Textile source available and just can not produce html(or text) output.

Well,… I have started to create a textile parser in Ruby to be able to parse the content in the backend. While there are still several constructs missing I have already the most important constructs ready. This can be checked on Github: [link]

Meanwhile I notice that it get more and more popular to integrate Javascript within the backend (usually using Google V8 engine).
There are standalone engines (like node.js) but also integration into an Ruby stack. I still hesitate to mix up Ruby with Javascript code but if you look at Coffeescript that look promising!
Rails 3.1. is supposed to deliver some of the Javascript stuff… let’s see.

after working for long years using SVN I convered the repo of this Blog to GIT.
I created some test/toy repo on Github . While this is supposed to be much more effective I need to see. Meanwhile I just notice that git really is not good while performing push and pull via http (what I need in order to work with firewall proxy).
For my real repo’s I created a private git server for myself. Once the code matures I might push to GITHub as well.

It turns out that Twitter is easier to use than Google (via OpenID). One of my issues is that google returns different authentications depending on the requesting URL. This really sucks if your web-app is accessable by different URL’s (e.g. in development) etc. so you need to maintain another authorization for each of them.

However now it’s there and ready to use. Additionally I used the new Rails 3 mailer API to add some confirmation step for the Email Address of new Users.